Re: (rshsdepot) Wabash Terminal, Pittsburgh

[Patrick Rieger <vze2tv9t_@_verizon.net>]

Seth Bramson wrote:
> If any of you are from
> Pitts, perhaps you will fill us in.  Is the station still extant?

The Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal went into receivership and in 1917 was 
bought by the P&WV. The freight and passenger terminals were not used 
much. In 1946 the freight terminal burned down (cause unknown to me), 
and was a total loss. The massive bridge over the Monongahela River was 
torn down in 1948 and its steel melted down to help form the Dravosburg 
Bridge. The station itself was torn down on 1953 to make way for Gateway 
Center.

Today, the corner where the station stood, Stanwix Street (formerly 
Ferry Street) & Liberty Avenue, has the entrance to the T's Gateway 
Center station. The piers for the bridge are still in place, and PennDOT 
owns the tunnel through Mount Washington, with plans for reuse that keep 
getting pushed back.

The old Wabash Line through Pittsburgh went from the P&WV, to N&W, to 
the Wheeling & Lake Erie, who still operates the line daily.

Patrick


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